Jaipur: Karnataka riding in half a century from KV Siddharth (85 did not come out), Skipper Manish Pandey (52 did not come out) and R Samarth (54) to sail to the quarter-finals of the Hazare Vijay Cup with an eight-goal comprehensive victory over Rajasthan here, on Sunday.
Chasing 200 for victory in the pre-quarter-finals, Karnataka subsided the house with more than six free overs.
Previously, sent to Bat, total 199 Rajasthan was built on a beats of counter-attacks (nine four and five six) by captain Deepk Hooda after the team dropped to 19 for 5.
Karnataka, supported by the return of K Gowtham, Devdutt Padikkal and Prasidh Krishna , Having Rajasthan in all kinds of hassle at age 19 for 5 in eighth.
Krishna hit the first blow, which has a shape of Abhijeet Tomar, who has scored more than 300 runs including a ton in the tournament, captured by Padikkal for 5.
Right-arm medium-Pacer Vijaykumar Vyshak (222) Scalped the next four Wickets, including Mahipal Lomror (4 ), Like Rajasthan staring barrel, losing half-sided in eighth.
Hooda, who came in the second autumn Wicket (Manender Singh), joined Samarpit Joshi and the Duo began rebuilding.
While the captain wasn’t afraid to go for a big hit, Joshi (33 off 63 balls) gave him enough support.
Both of them added 118 running to the sixth goal to give hope to Rajasthan against the strong side of carnataka.
The one hundred team came on the 24th because Hooda and Joshi began playing with confidence.
Despite losing Joshi, Hooda continued to score ran and reached tons worthy in 99 balls.
He fell at 41 above, confused by S Sharah off the Pravin Dubey leg-spinner (1/1) before Gowtham finished the innings by dismissing Khaleel Ahmed (0).
Karnataka loses talented padikkal (4) to Kamlesh Nagarkoti (27) even when fellow opener Samarth starts bright with some limits.
Samarth and Siddharth added 75 to walk quickly to put Karnataka on the road to victory.
Pandey then came with an active half a century and in the Siddharth company added 100 to the third goal to bring home the team.
Pandey finished the match with six big leg off-spinner Ravi Bishnoi, which was finished with no 63 of 9.4 overs.
Karnataka will take the South Tamil Nadu rival in the quarter-finals on Tuesday.
Breast Scores: Rajasthan 199 Out at 41.4 Overs (Deepak Jagbir Hooda 109, Samarpit Joshi 33, Vijaykumar Vyshak 4 for 22) Lost Karnataka 204 for 2 of 43.3 Overs (KV Siddharth 85 Not Out, R Samarth 52, Manish Pandey 52 Not Exit) by eight goals.
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